The smash musical tells the true story of Motown founder Berry Gordy’s journey from featherweight boxer to heavyweight music mogul. His American dream launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, shattered barriers, shaped our lives and made us move to the same beat.

Take a walk through a mind-bending, fantastical excursion. Nothing is what it seems in this fully immersive experience, where every twist of your journey toys with your senses and challenges your Perception.

Annaleigh Ashford returns to her hometown of Denver with an evening of song, story and sequins in Lost in the Stars, which celebrates cabaret with an eclectic mix of music from Donna Summer to Judy at Carnegie Hall to Alanis Morissette.

Defending the Caveman is a hilarious play about the ways men and women relate to each other. Without taking sides, this insightful comedy discusses the ongoing battle for understanding between the sexes.

The world’s best-loved musical returns as a brand new incarnation of the original, directed by original lyricist and director Martin Charnin, complete with “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” “I Don’t Need Anything But You,” plus the eternal anthem of optimism, “Tomorr...

In one of the most successful and award-winning musicals of all time, Wicked is the story of how two girls — one born with emerald green skin — become friends in the land of Oz (long before that girl from Kansas arrives).

Imagination soars and laughter and awe abound in Lookingglass Alice, Chicago’s gravity-defying hit inspired by Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories. With breathtaking theatricality and surreal acrobatics, this wonderland is one you won’t want to miss.

Shakespeare returns! After falling head over heels under each other’s spell, the lovers Orlando and Rosalind are separately banished and become entangled in a beguiling game of mistaken identity when Rosalind disguises herself as a young man.

The members of Billy’s fiercely intelligent and proudly politically incorrect family share private languages, inside jokes and fiery arguments. But meeting Sylvia causes Billy, deaf since birth, to question what it means to be understood.

If/Then is the “fascinating, ambitious, and original new musical” (New York Post) that simultaneously follows one woman’s two possible life paths, painting a deeply moving portrait of the lives we lead, as well as the lives we might have led.

More than 70 million people around the world have experienced the phenomenon of Disney’s The Lion King, and now you can, too, when Denver’s best-loved musical returns to The Buell Theatre. There is simply nothing else like The Lion King.

Essential to the holiday season in Denver, A Christmas Carol is a joyous and opulent musical adaptation that traces money-hoarding skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge’s triumphant overnight journey to redemption.

Direct from Broadway, A Christmas Story, The Musical,nominated for three 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical, comes to hilarious life onstage! The Associated Press calls it “a joyous Christmas miracle.”

For the regulars at a struggling bar called The Nest, no conversation is off-limits…until a woman walks in and offers a large sum for the antique bar. A new comedy from Theresa Rebeck, whose plays “may make you laugh or shudder (or both).”

Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage is a record-breaking live theatre sensation, exploding with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensational dancing. You’ll have the time of your life!

Called a “jaw-dropping political drama” (Variety), this 2014 Best Play Tony-winner vividly portrays one of the most controversial, ambitious and ruthless figures of the 20th century – President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

In this true-to-life new comedy, Mexican-American Lucia is hired to write for a cutthroat TV studio. But as she begins incorporating a new friend’s ideas into her scripts, her fast-track to success causes complications in her personal life.

Developed from the ever popular MGM screenplay, this production contains the songs from the Oscar-winning movie score, all the favorite characters and iconic moments, plus a few surprises, including new songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Getting away with murder can be so much fun…and there’s no better proof than the knock-‘em-dead hit show that’s earned unanimous raves and won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical, —A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder!

Newsies has audiences and critics alike calling it “A musical worth singing about!” (The New York Times). Filled with one heart-pounding number after another, it’s a high-energy explosion of song and dance you just don’t want to miss.

Featuring an ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, once tells the tale of a Dublin street musician who's about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the smash hit Broadway musical, returns to Denver! Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, this eye-popping spectacle has won the hearts of more than 35 million people worldwide.

The spirited, romantic and beloved story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family will thrill audiences with its Tony, Grammy and Academy Award winning Best Score, including “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” and the title song.

Beautiful — The Carole King Musical is the Tony Award-winning musical that tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom. Along the way, she made more than beautiful music, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation.

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